New Comics and Collectibles Shop in Rego Park to Host Its Own Comic Cons

A number of comics on the new store. View Full Caption

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QUEENS — Holy heroes, Batman! There is a new comedian store on the town!

A brand new spot to attain comedian books in addition to classic and collectible gadgets simply opened in Rego Park, with plans to deal with an artwork gallery and maintain its personal conventions, the house owners stated.

The 12,000-sq.-foot area will formally launch someday in November at ninety nine-01 63rd Rd., changing a Pioneer grocery store, which closed about two years in the past.

The shop — owned by Michael Carbonaro, ninety one, and his son Michael, who additionally runs the Massive Apple Comedian Conference — will supply a whole lot of previous cash, stamps, publish playing cards, magazines and an array of memorabilia.

“We’re promoting a bit of little bit of every little thing,” stated the older Carbonaro, who has collected stamps since he was 9. “It’s going to be one big flea market with all types of collectibles.”

On Friday morning, a number of rows of tables within the retailer displayed collections of Chinese language stamps, postcards from Eighteen Eighties, vinyl data, in addition to dozens of comedian books — from “The Unimaginable Hulk” and “Mister Miracle” to “Star Trek” and “The Uncanny X-Males.”

Co-proprietor Tony Carbonaro holding a set of stamps on the new store. (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska)

Individuals all for promoting their collectibles can additionally lease tables on the retailer for $35 a day, the house owners stated.

Whereas many gadgets value between $1 and $three, the shop additionally presents quite a lot of distinctive and pricier collectibles — like a ten-cent stamp printed about 1910 that has solely two perforated sides and is value as much as $four,500, Carbonaro stated.

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The area doesn’t have a identify but, however the older Carbonaro stated they’re contemplating calling it “Wow It.”

“We don’t have something like that within the space,” stated David Dudovitz, 22, a Queens School scholar who lives close by and visited the shop final Monday.

Whereas Dudovitz isn’t eager about comedian books, he leafed by means of previous magazines favored copies of Life and a problem of Ebony from 1968 devoted to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

“Clearly, they’ve some historic worth,” he stated.

The area will even embrace an artwork gallery, and the house owners are planning to carry their inaugural exhibit dedicated to…